John Burroughs High Principal John Paramo, who took the helm of the campus in 2012, has been promoted to oversee secondary education in Burbank — an administrative districtwide position, according to school officials.

BURBANK — There are those who say that Dyson Hamner is one of the best all-around athletes to ever come out of Burbank High.
"Dyson Hamner was someone who could do just about everything," former Burbank coach and athletic director Dave Kemp said....

Henry Goods has been a muralist for 18 years. He's given marine life, even fairies, homes on street corners and gas-station walls.
On his latest creation, roughly 576 amateur painters, some not even as tall as his waist, joined him.
Goods teamed up...

Burbank High School's chorale groups donned their cowboy hats and plaid shirts for the second annual Carroll's Corral & Cookout fundraiser last week.
Students proved they can sing, dance and wait tables, too, as they entertained family and friends...

Dozens converged on Lincoln Park in Burbank Saturday for an afternoon of bending acrobatics and the words of William Shakespeare.
Many crowded on blankets or sat comfortably in chairs for a live performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," preceded by stunts from members "E=MCirque2," a troupe that combines dance, cirque techniques and celebrates different cultures.
The comedic juggling, hand stands on chairs and knife balancing captivated youngsters who dropped their jaws with applause. Zemina...

The percentage of students who passed the California High School Exit Exam in Burbank during the last school year remained largely unchanged from the year prior's rates, according to data released by state education officials.
During the 2013-14 school year, 94% of Burbank Unified sophomores passed the math portion of the exam, and the same percentage passed the math section the year before, according to statistics released last week.
In addition, 93% of students passed the English language-arts...

Students, teachers and staff at Bret Harte Elementary School will bid farewell to their principal, Sheari Taylor, at the end of this month because she has accepted a position at the Los Angeles County Office of Education.
A principal for six years at Bret Harte, Taylor said she's "profoundly sad" to leave the children and staff at the school.
"But I know this is the right next step for me," she added.
On Sept. 29, she'll become an administrator for the county education office and will consult with...

Noting a suggestion from a local mom, the Burbank school board has agreed to discuss later start times for middle and high school students, an idea gaining nationwide momentum following the American Academy of Pediatrics' endorsement.
Last month, the academy released a formal policy statement saying that starting school at 8:30 a.m. or later could help teens avoid depression, becoming overweight, getting into car accidents and may lead to better grades and higher test scores.
In addressing the Burbank...

Gilbert Tobon remembers all the fun he had growing up here.
There was Burbank Night at Disneyland — where it seemed all the youth in town packed buses and traveled to the Anaheim amusement park. He also recalls Spirit Week before the Burbank-Burroughs football game — especially the bed races down the Golden Mall, when San Fernando Boulevard was closed to traffic.
It's with those memories in mind that Tobon, a 1979 graduate of Burroughs, started the JBHS/BHS all-class reunion. This year marks...

This fall, Burroughs High has a marching band with more than 100 students — a healthy number for most high schools. But the new director’s goal is to expand the program even more.
Taylor Arakelian recently took the helm as Burroughs’ band director, overseeing the instruction of students in the school’s concert band, wind ensemble, symphonic band, jazz band and Advanced Placement music-theory classes.
Growing up in Fresno, Arakelian started playing music in the fourth grade. After...

More students enrolled in Burbank schools this year than officials had projected, according to data released this week.
Across the district, 15,308 students were enrolled, an increase of more than 250 pupils compared to last year, said Hani Youssef, director of student services for Burbank Unified.
He said some of the increase is due to the district offering seven transitional kindergarten classes, as opposed to the four they had planned to offer this year.
At the high school level, there are about 130...